Benjamin Netanyahu
The government-building logjam continues, with Knesset members analyzing the limited possibilities now in front of them.
“If it’s so important for [Benjamin] Netanyahu, then he should pay the Palestinians $12 million,” U.S. president tells advisers, according to senior White House officials quoted by Israeli media.
The “clear shift” in Arab countries’ perception of Israel is due to the Iran threat and “is the way peace will ultimately be achieved,” Israeli prime minister says at the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court judge grants police “measured” search warrants despite “major flaws” in their investigation of the premier’s top media advisers for suspected witness harassment.
Tehran’s use of “Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen as bases to attack Israel” is a “great, great danger,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to “dictate the entire public agenda” • Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid: “All Netanyahu needs to do is agree to be second in a rotation agreement.”
Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Joint List, Labor-Gesher and Meretz leaders agree to meet with the prime minister-designate; Likud stresses premier will be negotiating on behalf of 55-seat right-wing bloc.
“There is no justification for forcing another election cycle—the third—on the Israeli public. If no government is formed, the Israeli public are the ones who will pay the price,” said Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.
The attorney general’s decisions on whether to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may determine whether or not the Jewish state is headed to a third election • Bennett: “It’s time for Blue and White to climb down from the anti-Netanyahu tree.”
Lip service aside, senior Likud members are already “deep in the race” to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the party.
Blue and White leader says he is “optimistic” regarding assembling a majority coalition over the next 28 days; Netanyahu: “I made every effort to bring Benny Gantz to the negotiating table.”
“I absolutely condemn any attack on IDF soldiers,” says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an Israeli soldier is lightly injured during clashes with residents of Yitzhar in Samaria.
